A reminder that winter can still happen during April impacted Iowa on Friday with the primary winter mode being freezing rain. Generally warm soil temperatures and the event mostly happening during daylight hours helped to keep the impacts from getting too extreme. One may wonder how common freezing rain events are in April. Well, the featured chart attempts to show this by summarizing airport weather reports from Des Moines. Now there are caveats galore with how freezing rain is reported within automated observations and prior to modernization of the stations, but generally the plot shows only a few events during April with the highest frequency in January. Thankfully, our return of winter was brief with much warmer temperatures expected next week.

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